Saturday, July 15, 2017

Okay...I caved. I decided that I could read the second book in this trilogy this month and then read the third next month ( I thought that it would be a good idea to pace it out...) but it wasn't a good idea! I want to read the next book NOW (imagine a grown woman throwing a major wobbly fit because she can't gratify her need to know immediately).
As I mentioned in my other post about N. K. Jemisin, I had read (listened to) The Fifth Season and then promptly bought the rest of her work.

This book is just amazing, different, engrossing. There's that hint of a bygone terrestrial era (and I have always loved a book about an Earth that is no longer recognizable). Though it is much more than that. I really want to know how this world evolved to be what it is now and that is what holds my fascination (and always has!). Added to that a strong female protagonist (who is a survivor), and a hard, painful backstory and you have The Fifth Season. It gets exciting at the end however and then we get to The Obelisk Gate:

I loved this book! It really is epic fantasy (and nominated for both The Nebula and Hugo Awards). Sometimes the middling book of a trilogy is just filler, but not this one. It's action packed from start to finish, keeping the story going along at a fast clip with some more backstory thrown in. I hate to give spoilers, so I can't really say more about this book, except that I wish N.K. Jemisin good luck with the Hugos. Now, to calculate how soon I can get the next book!

Monday, July 3, 2017

...is my interest in reading this book. Not that it isn't a perfectly good book... I just can't help but loathe the content right now, and I am not able to carry on reading it until I have grown a thicker skin. It has all the important components for a literary masterpiece, and some day I will come back to it (maybe).
This has happened before, it's not a big deal, I can still refer to it during my course later this month (perhaps the course itself will inspire me to give it another go). For now, I don't have the tolerance to read any more about sexism, racism, and cruelty to animals...